For his service, commitment, and dedication to the greater good of the American Indian community, Ernest (“Ernie”) L. Stevens, Sr., will be honored by the Phoenix Indian Center with the 2017 Leon Grant Spirit of the Community Award. His son, Ernie Stevens, Jr., chairman of the National Indian Association,...

A whopping 90 percent of men from the Yurok Reservation went overseas during World Wars I and II, serving everywhere from Italy to Iwo Jima.This is just one interesting fact from The Original Patriots: Northern California Indian Veterans of World War Two by Chag Lowry, Yurok/Maidu/Pit River, who 60...